Message of the Coordinator
It was great to see many of you at the study day in Mons. Many thanks to the team in Mons and to Alain Vande Wouver for organizing an inspiring day!
The next DYSCO day will be organized by the VUB team and will take place on November 22, 2013 at the prestigious "Palais des Académies" in Brussels; watch out for more details in the Fall.
It is a pleasure for me to take this opportunity to congratulate our colleague Sabine Van Huffel (KULeuven) for her recent honorary doctorate from TU/e. Sabine is one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of biomedical signal processing and it is a honor to have her participating in our network.
Enjoy this new issue of Dysco News.
Vincent Blondel
DYSCO coordinator
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Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
- Juan Du (Carnegie Mellon University) is performing an internship at UCL INMA between May 27 and August 20. She is working with Ngoc Ha Hoang, Nicolas Hudon and Denis Dochain.
- Aurélien Lancin, PhD student (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) will visit us from June 3 to 7. He will work with Alok Kumar.
- Thomas George Selvaraj, assistant professor (Karunya University, Coimbatore, India), will stay with us from June 1st to July 31. His hosts are Easter Selvan Suviseshamuthu and Pierre-Antoine Absil. They will work on the topic "Application of source separation algorithms to analyse EEG data".
- Alex Olshevsky, professor at the University of Illinois (Urbana), will visit us from June 17 to July 17. He will work with Julien Hendrickx, Raphaël Jungers and Vincent Blondel on the topic : "Multi-agent systems and switched systems".
- Gunnar Blohm (Laboratory for Computational Sensorimotor) will visit us between June 11 and 14 to work with Philippe Lefèvre and his team.
VUB
- Mikaya Lumori, University of San Diego, USA: from 7/6/2013 until 23/08/2013
- Benjamin Sanchez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain: from 10/6/2013 until 14/6/2013
UNamur
- Emmanuel Witrant, University Joseph Fourier, Control Systems Department (DAUTO), GIPSA-lab, Grenoble (France). He will mainly work with J. Winkin in the framework of a Tournesol project on Boundary control of Hyperbolic Systems. (June 10-12, 2013)
Seminars
KUL
- June 13, 2013 - 15:00-16:30 - Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering
Yurii Nesterov. More information here
VUB
ELEC Seminars take place at the department ELEC (Pleinlaan 2, Building K, 7th floor) every two weeks, normally on Thursdays in the morning. The final time and date are announced at least one week before a seminar at https://intranet.vub.ac.be/doctoral-schools/nse/team-seminars/elec-seminars/.
ULg
Systmod weekly seminars normally take place on each Friday, 11am. They are announced on this webpage.
UNamur
- June 11, 2013, 1 pm, Salle de Conférence du Département de Mathématique (room E25), 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur.
Sophie BEREAU (Louvain School of Management, Finance Dep., UCL), An agent-based modelling of the exchange rate disconnect puzzle. - June 12, 2013, 11 am, Salle de Conférence du Département de Mathématique (room E25), 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur.
Emmanuel WITRANT (gipsa-lab, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble), Profiles Control and Stability in Thermonuclear Fusion: Some Issues for ITER. - June 18, 2013, 1 pm, Salle de Conférence du Département de Mathématique (room E25), 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur.
Bernard DE SAEDELEER (Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, UCL), Title to be announced later.
Theses defenses
KUL
- June 7, 2013 : Alexander Caicedeo Dorado, Advances in Neonatal Brain Monitoring, Symposium and PhD defense. Programme available here.
UNamur
- June 17, 2013 : Charles Hubaux, Long term dynamics of space debris orbits including Earth’s shadows, 3 pm, Auditorium E13, rempart de la Vierge 8, 5000 Namur.
Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks
The SOCN Graduate School 2013-2014 programme is nearly finalized.
Sneak preview here : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
8th Workshop on Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, July 1-5, 2013, Craiova, Romania
Web site : http://math.ucv.ro/wcdps/index.html
Protocells: Back to the Future - September 3, 2013, Taormina, Italy
Workshop organized by T. Carletti (UNamur) in the framework of the European Conference on Artificial Life, Sept. 2-6, 2013, Taormina, Italy.
Web site : http://www.unamur.be/en/sci/naxys/pb2f
Cultural and opinion dynamics: Modeling, Experiments and Challenges for the future, September 18, 2013, Barcelona, Spain
Workshop organized by T. Carletti (UNamur) in the framework of the European Conference on Complex Systems, Sept. 16-20, 2013, Barcelona, Spain.
Web site : http://www.unamur.be/en/sci/naxys/eccs2013
1st IFAC Workshop CPDE 2013 on Control of Systems Modeled by Partial Differential Equations
Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, September 25 - 27, 2013
Web site : http://www.cpde2013.fr/index1.xhtml
Awards
Honorary Doctorate for Prof. Sabine Van Huffel
Prof. Sabine Van Huffel of KU Leuven received an honorary doctorate from TU/e on 25 April 2013.
She is one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of biomedical signal processing. This expertise area leads to techniques that allow data to be obtained from inside patients’ bodies without the need for operations, and is also one of the strengths of TU/e. Van Huffel is a recognized role model for women in science.
More about this : Sabine Van Huffel's DHC
Vacancies
PhD and Post-Doc Opening, Stochastic Optimization in Energy, CORE (UCL)
The Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) is announcing one PhD and one Post-Doc opening at the Applied Mathematics department of the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium.
The research will focus on stochastic optimization in energy, with an emphasis on renewable energy integration, demand response and parallel computing. Researchers will have the opportunity to access one of the largest supercomputers in the world in a quest to extend the state of the art in energy systems planning and operations.
The stimulating research environment of CORE is supported by faculty whose expertise covers a wide range of domains in optimization, energy, statistics and economics. Researchers will also have the opportunity to interact with US collaborators. UCL is located a half hour away from Brussels, in the heart of Europe and the European Union.
Applications are due August 23, 2013 or until the positions are filled. For additional details regarding the research projects, benefits, and application material please email Anthony Papavasiliou at anthony.papavasiliou@uclouvain.be or consult this link
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
Johansson, Stefan; Kagstrom, Bo; Van Dooren, Paul, Stratification of full rank polynomial matrices. In: Linear Algebra and Its Applications, (2013). doi:10.1016/j.laa.2012.12.013. Accepted. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128409
Ishteva, Mariya; Absil, Pierre-Antoine; Van Dooren, Paul, Jacobi algorithm for the best low multilinear rank approximation of symmetric tensors, In: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, (2013). Accepted. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128410
Orban de Xivry, Jean-Jacques, Trial-to-trial reoptimization of motor behavior due to changes in task demands is limited, In: PLoS One, (2013). Accepted. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128483
Traag, Vincent; Van Dooren, Paul; De Leenheer, Patrick, Dynamical Models Explaining Social Balance and Evolution of Cooperation, In: PLoS One, Vol. 8, no.4, p. e60063 (2013). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060063. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128517
Correa Da Rocha, Luis Enrique; Blondel, Vincent, Flow motifs reveal limitations of the static framework to represent human interactions, In: Physical Review, Vol. 87, no. 4, p. 042814-1 (9 pages) (April 2013). doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042814. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128468
Frasca, Paolo; Hendrickx, Julien, Large network consensus is robust to packet losses and interferences, ECC 2013 (Zurich, Switzerland, 17-19/06/2013). In: Proceedings. (2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128418
Lefèvre, Augustin; Glineur, François, First-order methods for low-rank matrix factorization applied to informed source separation, International workshop on regularization, optimization, kernel methods and support vector machines (ROKS 2013) (Leuven, Belgium, 08-10/07/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128638
Picron, Pascale; Boudry, Christelle; Dochain, Denis; Thewis, André; Bindelle, Jérôme, Evaluation de la durabilité des productions porcines en Wallonie : développement d'un outil de modélisation, 45èmes Journées de la Recherche Porcine (Paris, France, 05-06/02/2013). In: JRP, IFIP, INRA, 2013, p. 21-26. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128678
KUL
Sharma S., Goodarzi M., Wynants L., Ramon H., Saeys W., Efficient use of pure component and interferent spectra in multivariate calibration, Analytica Chimica Acta, vol. 778, May 2013, pp. 15-23.
Hunyadi B., Signoretto M., Debener S., Van Huffel S., De Vos M., Classification of structured EEG tensors using nuclear norm regularization: improving P300 classification, in Proc. of the International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging (PRNI), Philadelphia, US, Jun. 2013, pp. 1-4.
Hunyadi B., Tousseyn S., Mijovic B., Dupont P., Van Huffel S., Van Paesschen W., De Vos M., EEG-fMRI without spikes: Extracting epileptic independent components in resting state fMRI, Internal Report 13-89, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Szurley J., Bertrand A., Moerman I., and Moonen M., Distributed speech enhancement with simultaneous node updating in a wireless acoustic sensor network with a tree topology, Internal Report 13-92, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Suykens J.A.K., Introduction to Machine Learning, Internal Report 13-93, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Accepted for publication in Library in Signal Processing, vol. 1, Academic Press, 2013 (Eds. S. Theodoridis, R. Chellappa).
Suykens J.A.K., Generating quantum-measurement probabilities from an optimality principle, Physical Review A, vol. 87, no. 5, May 2013, pp. 052134.
UGent
Eline De Cuypere, Optimal Inventory Management in a Fluctuating Market, accepted for presentation at ASMTA 2013, Ghent, July 8-11, 2013. A. Dudin and K. De Turck (Eds.): ASMTA 2013, LNCS 7984, pp. 158-170. Springer, Heidelberg (2013), http://telin.ugent.be/~df/asmta2013/call.html
Eline De Cuypere, Markovian SIR model for opinion propagation, accepted for presentation at ITC 25 Conference, Shanghai, Sept. 10-12, 2013. http://www.itc25.org/
Eline De Cuypere, Performance analysis of a kitting process as a paired queue, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi Publishing cooperation, accepted, 2013.
VUB
L. Song, M. Ishteva, A. Parikh, E. Xing, and H. Park, Hierarchical tensor decomposition of latent tree graphical models, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2013), Atlanta, GA, USA, 16-21 June 2013.
M. Ishteva, H. Park, and L. Song, Unfolding latent tree structures using 4th order tensors, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2013), Atlanta, GA, USA, 16-21 June 2013.
D. Oliva Uribe, R. Stroop, K. Schmieder, J. Schoukens, Real Time Tactile Sensor For Brain Tissue Differentiation, Presentation of poster at CARS 2013, Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 27th International Congress and Exhibition, Heidelberg, Germany, June 26-29
I. Markovsky and K. Usevich, Structured low-rank approximation with missing values, Accepted for publication in SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl.
UMons
M. Sbarciog, A. Vande Wouwer, Start-up of Multispecies Anaerobic Digestion Systems: Extrapolation of the Single Species Approach, accepted by the Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems Journal.
Thomas Hoellinger, Mathieu Petieau, Matthieu Duvinage, Thierry Castermans, Karthik Seetharaman, Ana-Maria Cebolla, Ana Bengoetxea, Yuri P Ivanenko, Bernard Dan, Guy Cheron, Biological oscillations for learning walking coordination: dynamic recurrent neural network functionally models physiological central pattern generator, accepted by Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.
M. Sbarciog, D. Coutinho, A. Vande Wouwer, A Cascade MPC-Feedback Linearizing Strategy for the Multivariable Control of Animal Cell Cultures, accepted for the 9th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS), 4-6 September 2013, Toulouse, France
M. Sbarciog, J.A. Moreno, E. Guzman, A. Vande Wouwer, State and Unknown Input Estimation for an Anaerobic Digestion System, accepted for the 11th IWA Conference on Instrumentation Control and Automation (ICA), 18-20 September 2013, Narbonne, France
G. Araujo Pimentel, A. Vande Wouwer, A. Rapaport, J. Harmand, Modeling of submerged membrane bioreactors with a view to control, accepted for the 11th IWA Conference on Instrumentation Control and Automation (ICA), 18-20 September 2013, Narbonne, France
UNamur
M Rosvall, AV Esquivel, A Lancichinetti, JD West, R Lambiotte, Networks with Memory, arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4807
T Hoffmann, R Lambiotte, MA Porter, Decentralized Routing on Spatial Networks with Stochastic Edge Weights, arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0128
R Lambiotte, L Tabourier, JC Delvenne, Burstiness and spreading on temporal networks, arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.0543
AS Pandit, P Expert, R Lambiotte, V Bonnelle, R Leech, FE Turkheimer, DJ Sharp, Traumatic brain injury impairs small-world topology, Neurology 80 (20), 1826-1833
Adrien Friggeri, Renaud Lambiotte, Michal Kosinski, Eric Fleury, Psychological Aspects of Social Communities, International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom) 2013
Till Hoffmann, Mason A Porter, Renaud Lambiotte, Random Walks on Stochastic Temporal Networks, Temporal Networks, 295-313, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013
IAP Contact Persons
| UCL | Isabelle Hisette |
| KUL | Ida Tassens |
| UGent | Margot Roels |
| VUB | Ann Pintelon |
| ULg | Sophie Cimino |
| UMons | Laurent Dewasme |
| UNamur | Joseph Winkin |